The Identity Security Company Recognized for Product, Innovation and Market Leadership

DENVER, Colo. — August 28, 2014

DENVER, Colo. — August 28, 2014 — Ping Identity®, The Identity Security Company™, has been positioned as a three-time leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on Cloud User and Access Management. Ping Identity has also been named as a leader in Gartner Inc.’s 2014 Magic Quadrant for Identity and Access Management as a Service (IDaaS), Forrester Research Inc.’s, “The Forrester Wave™: Identity And Access Management Suites, Q3 2013,” and IDC’s, “IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Federated Identity Management and Single Sign-On Vendor Assessment.”

The Leadership Compass rates vendors on innovation, product features and market reach for Cloud User and Access Management. According to the report, Ping Identity stood out in all three categories, and the report also described Ping Identity as an established company with the ability to build on a significant partner base and global presence.

“This has been a banner year for Ping Identity, being named a leader in reports by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, and now, KuppingerCole,” Andre Durand, founder and CEO, Ping Identity. “As businesses become more federated in today’s threat landscape, both enterprises and individual users must have secure identities to access databases and applications holding sensitive data. The latest report is great acknowledgement for the work we’re doing at Ping and further validates our Next Gen Identity platform vision to protect enterprises and users, alike.”

Over 2,000 companies, including half of the Fortune 100, choose Ping Identity because its identity and access management (IAM) platform provides them one-click access to any application from any device. PingFederate®, PingOne® and PingAccess® offerings were evaluated and contributed to the company's position.

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Ping Identity is the pioneer and largest independent provider of next generation identity security solutions. With more than 1,200 customers worldwide including half of the Fortune 100, Ping Identity is transforming the way hundreds of millions of people live and work every day by making their favorite apps more convenient and secure to access from any device, anywhere. Visit pingidentity.com for more information.